Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:49:16 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 12:09:11, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >Don't be duped into calling the tournament the North American Computer Chess >championship. Calling it anything less than a World Championship will only >lessen the prestige of the event and reduce sponsorship money. Calling it a >World Championship will insure greater participation by the commercials, since >if they fail to win the "other" WC, they can still win this one and that will >help their advertising. The winner of the other WC will participate to prevent >this and also participate to add a 2nd WC belt for their program. The more the >better. > >Nobody corners the market on the World Championship name. If the other Wc does >not like it, tough! It serves them right for not holding it over here in the US. >Besides, on balance it will be good for computer chess. There is one world championship, and it is the ICCA world championship. As much as I don't like it that the ICCA has not done a tournament in North America for years, this is still true. The ICCA didn't just declare itself to be in charge of sanctioning the world championship -- this was worked out with FIDE years ago. bruce
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